Macs Adventure Limited
Registered name: MACS ADVENTURE LIMITED
Part of The Independent Adventure Group Limited groupMacs Adventure Limited made £43m revenue and £169k profit in the year to 30 Nov 2025. read from filing text
Macs Adventure Limited’s revenue grew 28% to £43m in the year to 30 Nov 2025, with £169k profit and 107 employees. The company is classified under “tour operator activities” and is based in Glasgow; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Glasgow, Scotland
- Age
- 17 yrs · since 2009
- Type
- Private Limited Company
Part of a group. The filing indicates this company sits within a group structure, so its results may depend on intra-group trading and it may be hard to replicate independently. From the filing: “The immediate parent undertaking is The Independent Adventure Group Limited, a company whose registered office is International House, 36-38 Cornhill, London, EC3V 3NG. Copies of the financial stateme”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 30 Nov 2022 | 30 Nov 2023 | 30 Nov 2024 | 30 Nov 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £22.5m | £25.7m | £33.6m | £43m |
| Cost of sales | £16.4m | £20.9m | £25.4m | £34.3m |
| Gross profit | £6.1m | £4.8m | £8.2m | £8.7m |
| Operating profit | £1.4m | −£1.9m | −£202k | £134k |
| Profit before tax | £1.4m | −£1.9m | −£130k | £293k |
| Profit after tax | £1.1m | −£1.5m | −£45.4k | £169k |
| Profit (best available) | £1.1m | −£1.5m | −£45.4k | £169k |
| Staff costs | £2.9m | £4.3m | £4.6m | £5.6m |
| Employees (average) | 71 | 92 | 102 | 107 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 5.1% | −5.7% | −0.1% | 0.4% |
| Gross margin | 27% | 18.6% | 24.4% | 20.1% |
| Revenue per employee | £317k | £279k | £329k | £402k |
| Profit per employee | £16.2k | −£16k | −£445 | £1.6k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲14.1% | ▲30.8% | ▲28.1% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼228.2% | — | — |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲29.6% | ▲10.9% | ▲4.9% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £4.2m | £4m | £4.7m | £4.9m |
| Net assets | £1.6m | £104k | £58.9k | £228k |
| Fixed assets | £1.3m | £1.8m | £1.9m | £2.1m |
| Current assets | £8.9m | £5.8m | £6.7m | £5.8m |
| Debtors | £0 | £33.4k | £186k | £268k |
| Deferred income | £1.8m | £1.7m | — | — |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Aug 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 0.4%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 20.1%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £402k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £1.6k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 4.9%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 0.6%
- Money owed by customers. Low = customers pay quickly.
Balance-sheet signals
Year-on-year changes in filed balance-sheet items. They can hint at momentum (or investment) but are not revenue or profit and must not be read as such.
- Net assets
- ▲287%
- Now £228k
- Cash at bank
- ▲4%
- Now £4.9m
- Headcount
- ▲5%
- Now 107
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- ▲14%
- Now £2.1m
Group structure
Ownership chain
- The Independent Adventure Group Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Macs Adventure Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 30 Nov 2025 (profit £169k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jul 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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